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Lanka availing Chinese labour is dangerous for India: Jaya

AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa expressed apprehension on Friday at Chinese convict-labourers executing highway and railway contracts as part of rehabilitation of the internally displaced persons in the war-ravaged regions of Sri Lanka.

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AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa expressed apprehension on Friday at Chinese convict-labourers executing highway and railway contracts as part of rehabilitation of the internally displaced persons in the war-ravaged regions of Sri Lanka.

“My information is that the Chinese labour force in Sri Lanka has been infiltrated by spies with a mandate to commence anti-India surveillance and espionage operations from the hitherto safe southern flanks,” Jayalalithaa said in a statement.

“If media reports about large-scale Chinese presence in northern Sri Lanka are true, we certainly have a problem at hand. India should have used [Lankan president Mahinda] Rajapaksa’s recent visit to put things in perspective,” Jaya said.

“The government should act before it is too late. It has to talk to Sri Lanka, and talk tough. To expose the hapless and vulnerable remnants of the Tamil population, consisting of the old, the disabled and the womenfolk, to the overtures and excesses of a 25,000-strong prison-labour force from China would be disastrous,” she said.

“The government sanctioned Rs1,000 crore for reconstruction of the war-ravaged Tamil areas in Sri Lanka. Indian tax-payers’ money is ending up in China’s kitty,” she added.

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